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Your "What if" question (From a sober and not-high thought - think physics)

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April 02, 2017, 06:43 PM
Chris42
Your "What if" question (From a sober and not-high thought - think physics)
Heard this somewhere - Time is natures way of keeping everything from happening all at once.

If the past doesn't exist yet -

that would mean there are a lot of innocent people in prison...
April 02, 2017, 08:08 PM
LS1 GTO
What if you have 12 hours to live, and don't know it yet?






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April 02, 2017, 10:38 PM
phydough
The egg.
Unless you're left handed, then; The chicken.
April 02, 2017, 11:34 PM
Scoutmaster
My Berkeley physics neighbor once asked me, "if there are parallel universes, are there also perpendicular universes?"




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April 03, 2017, 12:40 AM
akcopnfbks
quote:
Originally posted by BurtonRW:
You should watch The Langoliers.

-Rob


I was going to say this exact thing. +1 Watch The Langoliers. Or better yet, read it.....it's contained in the novella collection Four Past Midnight, by Stephen King.


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April 03, 2017, 11:14 AM
Storm
If the past doesn't exist, then you're at the beginning of time.

If the past doesn't exist yet, then you're traveling backward in time.
Wink

On another note: Relativity implies that the past, present, and future all exist on the same footing. In other words, points in time (future or past) exist just like points in space do. In essence, it's saying the future is predetermined.

Here's a video explaining this:
NOVA: Fabric of the Cosmos - The Illusion of Time Watch until time index 28:30 (about 9 mins worth of video).



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April 03, 2017, 11:42 AM
bendable
you read that in readers digest !





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